Today we publish an interview with Viacheslav Kravchuk, CEO of Atwix and Tim Hahn, CEO of one of the biggest German Magento Enterprise Partner, netz98, talking about global eCommerce, Meet Magento, and how European companies can find their market fit internationally.

Commitment to being a distributed company brings many opportunities of growth. Still you have to remember, that a successful distributed team needs to have well established means of communication, and a set of online tools will never fulfill the lack of face-to-face talks among your coworkers. This year, we decided to bring all of our employees usually working from 5 different locations to a company offsite in the Carpathian mountains.

Every project or task has an own life cycle divided on some stages. These stages show us where the project is (its progress) and how fast it will be done. Our article will be interesting for projects managers, especially if they manage several projects at the same time.

When you are applying for the position of a project manager, you at least need to know the difference between PHP and JavaScript. However, in my case, I was unaware of it, so I had to learn a lot, day after day.

I must say that it is a quite common practice in the IT industry that PM is from the “outside world”. So, I am not the first and, of course, not the last one, and if you ask me how actually it is working, the answer will be “differently”.

Every prosperous IT company takes care of its clients and projects to grow up the business and deliver well-built solutions. Meanwhile, one of the major components of success is an internal environment development. No doubt that if the company is strong and stable inside, it will grow up and prosper. Employees are the moving force of the company results – the company managers should provide them with good work conditions and feedback for efforts. That is why we decided to share our experience in a form of 10 key aspects of how to take care of company’s employees and keep the inside harmony.

Project managers are the ones who closely communicate and work with clients day to day. PM’s are a face of every professional services company, and they are exactly the ones who pay a vital contribution to company’s image.

In today’s post, we’ve decided to share our vision and experience on the main and core duty of every project manager – making the client happy.